Why is this important?
A to Z index - L
Labelling
Laid off
- Lay offs when employer has no work for employees
- Redundancy - claiming redundancy after continued period of lay offs
- Working for another employer while laid off from your usual job
Landlords
- Accreditation schemes
- Anti-social behaviour in housing
- Deposits and premiums
- Disabled tenants - landlord's duty to make alterations
- Discrimination against tenants
- Guidance for landlords
- Landlords' association
- Reasonable adjustments for disabled tenants
- Responsibility for repairs
- Tenancy agreements
- Tenancy deposit protection schemes
Lawyers
- See: Solicitors
Learning difficulties
- Consumer contracts - who can make and cancel a contract
- Scams - stopping vulnerable people from being scammed
Learning disabilities
- See: Disability
Leaseholders
Leasing
Leave
- See: Time off work
Legal advice
Legal aid
Legal costs
Lesbians
- Civil partnership for same-sex couples
- Domestic violence - help for people experiencing physical or emotional abuse in a relationship
- Workplace - discrimination
- Young people
Letting agencies
Licences
- Air Travel Organiser's Licensing Scheme (ATOL)
- Driving licences
- Private licenced wheel-clampers
- Television licences
Life assurance
- Insurance claim is refused because you didn't give relevant information (material facts)
- See also: Insurance
Liquidation
- Airline failure - financial protection
- Finding out if a trader has stopped trading
- Holidays - liquidation of organiser/trader/travel agent
- Limited company has gone into administration, receivership or liquidation - your options
- Package holiday company goes out of business - financial protection
- Trader has gone into administration or liquidation - template letter
Literacy
- See: Adult education
Living together
- Ending a relationship when living together
- Legal differences - living together and marriage
- Opposite-sex couples
Loan sharks
Loans
- Credit union loans
- Doorstep loans
- Early repayment
- Home credit
- Loan sharks
- Pawnbroker loans
- Pawnbrokers
- Payday loans
- Payday loans
- Personal loans
- Professional and Career Development Loans
- Secured loans
- Student loans and the Student Loan Company
- Student loans - financial support for higher education
- Types of loans/credit
- See also: Credit
Local authorities
Local housing allowance
Lodgers
- See: Boarders
Logbook loans
Lone parents
- Benefits for children
- Income support
- In-work emergency discretion fund - financial help for parents when starting work
Lorries
- See: Vehicles
Loss assessors
Lost property
- Abroad - lost or stolen property
- Air travel - lost luggage
- Air travel - luggage is lost during the flight - compensation
- Cabin baggage is lost during the flight - compensation
- Goods left with a trader are lost
- Luggage - making a claim on your travel insurance
- Your belongings are lost while having a service done
Lotteries
LRA Arbitration Scheme
Luggage
- Air travel - lost or delayed luggage
- Air travel - luggage is lost or damaged during the flight - compensation
- Cabin baggage - compensation for baggage lost or damaged in flight
- Limited Release Tags - luggage is lost or damaged during the flight - compensation
- Lost or stolen luggage - making a claim on your travel insurance